11 Jay Street

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5-story abstracted Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1893. Designed by Alfred Zucker, it has a 1-story ground floor that has incised end piers and an unusual corbelled cornice. It has been painted and it is possible that some ornament has been removed. The infill in the openings and the awnings are of recent date. Above the base, the three-bay wide brick facade is enframed by simple, paired brick moldings. The rectangular window openings have stone sills and spayed brick lintels. A broad, bracketed cornice provides the finishing element to this simple facade, and a red metal fire escape runs down the right two-thirds.

The building was constructed with cold storage facilities and was leased by the Enterprise Cold Storage Company in 1894. The egg merchant Samuel Meierfeld occupied the building during the middle portion of the 20th century. It is now in residential use.